Free GamesZip 2000

To put it simply, Kevin Bracey's Zip 2000 is by far and away the most wonderful front-end
you could ever hope for with which to play text adventures. It lets you play
Infocom interactive fiction, or games written with the Inform
compiler (which includes several very good free ones), in the comfort of your
desktop, and takes advantage of screen modes with more than 256 colours if
available. It makes wonderful use of outline fonts, and offers full 'point and
click' mouse support where games allow it.

Features include:

Full support for Version 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 & 8 games

Full conformance to Graham Nelson's "Specification of the
Z-machine", Revision 1.0

Graphics support

Colour support

Timed-input support

Sound support

Mouse support

Menu support

Full function key/cursor key/keypad support

Full foreign language support, including runes and Unicode

Easily adjustable screen size

Full use of anti-aliased outline fonts (configurable)

Full command line editing & command recall

Compressed save files (1/10th the size of ZIP's)

Quetzal-format save files

Full alpha-compositing, dithering and gamma correction for
PNG pictures

Multiple UNDO

High speed - the fastest Z-code interpreter for RISC OS

The best-looking Z-code interpreter on any platform

The most standards-compliant Z-code interpreter on any
platform.

To give you an idea of the kinds of esoteric things this interpreter can do, you can even use it to play the game of Life should you so wish!

Kevin
Bracey generously allows Zip 2000 to be distributed absolutely free of charge - originally
you could pay a modest fee for an even better version, but the additiions that were in this are now
included as standard.